HTC Thunderbolt owners and Verizon Wireless 4G modem owners can breathe a sigh of relief: the company announed today that their 4G LTE network is back up and running. The network went down earlier in the week, but Verizon says they determined the cause of the issue late yesterday afternoon, and posted an update to their Twitter account to let the public know they’re working with their vendors to resolve it. Now, it looks like everything is back to normal.

Verizon Wireless hasn’t fessed up to exactly what caused the issue in the first place, or what they’re going to do to ensure it doesn’t happen again. Even so, no carrier with as much riding on their network as much as Verizon Wireless has riding on its LTE network would move forward without examining the root cause of the outage and taking whatever corrective action is necessary.

The company did say that while Thunderbolt owners should be relieved, 4G modem owners may still have some issues when moving between 3G and 4G modes. They did note that any issues 4G modem owners had would continue to improve as they continue to work on the network, but stopped short of explaining why. In the meantime, 4G owners can be happy that they have their super-fast network back.

Reader Comments

Don’t know if it went down or if they made some changes & said it went down but my TBolt seems to run slower & it’s a bit more laggy than before ? Anyone else out there experiancing the same issues ?

Edfili

I don’t have a TBolt but something is still going on with their LTE. I have a 4G MiFi and even though it was running normal this morning, it is not connecting to 4G at all since.

Edfili

I don’t have a TBolt but something is still going on with their LTE. I have a 4G MiFi and even though it was running normal this morning, it is not connecting to 4G at all since.

Abarthel03

Yeah, I have thunderbolt and it seems as if i am still running slow and low reception everywhere…. no 1x lately but… still low signal. i dont even have 4g in my area, might return this phone and go with incredible 2.

Abarthel03

Yeah, I have thunderbolt and it seems as if i am still running slow and low reception everywhere…. no 1x lately but… still low signal. i dont even have 4g in my area, might return this phone and go with incredible 2.

Daric0

I had the thunderbolt in and speeds at 31mbps in San Antonio, TX but after experiencing such loss of a connection just got a 3g phone. I am new to Verizon and still within my 14days. Any suggestions, should I stay with Verizon or go back to AT&T?

eric

I am also still having problems. I can connect to the LTE network but cannot do ANYTHING network related (connect to market, surf the web, etc.) however, if I am connect to 3g i have no issues and can do anything network related just fine…i hope they don’t think the problem is fixed and are just moving on